Optical Eigenvector.
Abstract
At the beginning of this contract, both we and the rest of the optical community imagined that simple analog optical computers could produce satisfactory solutions to eigen problems. Early in this contract we improved optical computing conceptually and tested it experimentally. This demonstrated that high accuracy required digital optics. This led us to explore digital optical systolic array processors. Here we made sufficient progress to guaranteee that the original contract goal (the use of optics for fast, accurate eigen solution) is now perfectly practiccal and to show that the hoped-for advantages in size, cost, and power consumption relative to equally fast electronic computers should be obtained. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1984
- Accession Number
- ADA149550
Entities
People
- J. Caulfield
Organizations
- Aerodyne Research